Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[Buck Oakes]

Well also if he was raised around Muscovy females then he probably won't mate with the Peking hen, if he knows what he wants to mate with then he want mate with anything else

On another note, only 60% of eggs will be fertile if they do mate and then not even 60% would hatch since the male Muscovy to female mallard derived hybrid is huge, they can grow bigger than the egg and therefore not surviving, as well they can be sickly

 

[Scovy Momma]

Off topic - where did you get your normandy basset and do you like him?

I picked her up for free off a Craigslist about 7 years ago about an hour's drive from me. The family was given the puppy from breeder neighbors because they couldn't sell the runt.
They kept her in poor treatment & condition then they didn't want her any more after 8 months of wrecking her mind & abuse to her body.

She was a very, very difficult dog. I love her but she made every day a chore with how neurotic & crazy the previous owners made her. Animal abuse is ridiculous. Now after years of tons of love & strict training & SO many headaches she is a well behaved dog. I have to keep up on her constantly but she is now my Animal Therapy partner & we make many people happy with visits to all sorts of facilities.
I do think that if I had gotten her from a decent background or as a puppy she would have been perfect from the get-go. She is the one out of 5 dogs in my house that I can quickly & easily train to do all sorts of tricks & she is practically 'bomb proof' in any situation.

 

[holliewog]

I picked her up for free off a Craigslist about 7 years ago about an hour's drive from me. The family was given the puppy from breeder neighbors because they couldn't sell the runt.
They kept her in poor treatment & condition then they didn't want her any more after 8 months of wrecking her mind & abuse to her body.

poor sweetie. We had an abused basset years ago - he was so bad people told about him for years,

 

[Scovy Momma]

poor sweetie. We had an abused basset years ago - he was so bad people told about him for years,

Awws!

I've been told by Basset rescuers that these hounds just don't take abuse well at all. No dog should take it, ya know, but I guess they just really suffer.
I do love my girl's big pretty eyes & long, soft ears.

They are beautiful dogs.

 

[holliewog]

Awws!

I've been told by Basset rescuers that these hounds just don't take abuse well at all. No dog should take it, ya know, but I guess they just really suffer.
I do love my girl's big pretty eyes & long, soft ears.

They are beautiful dogs.

yeah bassets love everyone so to abuse them is just so incomprehensible.

 

[mymilliefleur]

It has everything to do with it, during molt hormones are reduced dramatically, testosterone and the hen equivalent to estrogen are reduced a ton to have more growth hormones.

By the way i love your sig especially at the end, Give them plenty of space I couldn't agree more i dont understand how people can keep them in a run especially how it gets so dirty.

That makes sense Buck, now that I think of it, I don't see my roosters breeding my hens very often either. Though surprisingly enough one of my duck hens is laying, I'm not sure which one though, since all my older ducks are heavily molting, and I doubt my 4-5 month old hens are laying yet, as they have yet to get even get red faces.
And yes, it's amazing how many health issues can be avoided by just making sure your flock has adequate space.

 

[kilby]

Hi
so my 'scovies did hatch and five to three days early. One was murdered by the broody and close to it for the second. It has been a week now and I hope no lasting pychological damage. He is happy and healthy and here he is. I am going to show you his wide tail and small wings to prove he is a drakelet if you don't have a chocolate male. not just yet. His chest is quite big also.
especially when he sits.

 

[kilby]

top view showing wide, almost body width tail, and disproportionately small wings. The yellow is the tip of the wing. Not showing but the legs
are spaced very wide. Not one female feature. Chocolate head as well. I'm going with drakelet.

 

[bell636]

We recently got these and were told they were muscovies but I'm thinking they are mules or hennies, any input would be great!

 

[Buck Oakes]

top view showing wide, almost body width tail, and disproportionately small wings. The yellow is the tip of the wing. So he is chocolate as well.

I would say black but has chocolate in him, I've posted this before I think, babies who aren't chocolate but have potential to have chocolate children show minor signs of chocolate such as on the face, or wings or tail, but that baby looks black, also by just looking at them at this age u really can't tell just by how they are shaped and stuff, it's personality at this age that gives it away